Originally posted by trayi52
YellowLabLover,
You are soooo right, I cannot stand to see somebody shoot a deer, just to get its head. That sickens me, I really like the way you used the word harvest, true.

I seen something the other day that just turned my stomack, we were driving down a back road, and there by the side of the road was a box somebody had put a deer in, all they wanted was the antlers(is that right?), it looked like they just dug it out of the top of its head and then threw the rest out. That is what really bothers me about hunting, seeing such waste. There are hungry people everywhere that would love to have had the meat they threw away. What a waste!

Tray
Yeah, that is sad and sick. My dad and I, (and our hunting friends) would never do that. I remember when my dad hit a deer, he felt really bad, and he wanted to salvage as much as possible so he wouldn't waist it, but the deer was to banged up. He felt pretty bad about that for a while. Luckily, he hasn't hit any more deer!

This past deer season, we had a group of about 18 people hunting together, and we all agreed that if we got a lot of deer, we could take our portions then donate the rest to a food pantry. BUT- we only got one deer. Maybe next year we can give more.


Yep, they are called antlers, not horns. The difference between the two: antlers are shed every year and new ones grow back, and horns are permanent and don't fall off the animals head.